Feathers and Pigments
The most common structural component of feathers
What is beta keratin?
The earliest known bird species capable of true flight.
What is Archaeopteryx lithographica?
What are Galloanseres and Neoaves?
The number of toes on an Ostrich foot.
How many is two?
The specialized mating system where males gather to display for females.
What is lek polygamy?
A rod-shaped pigment that gives feathers a black color.
What is eumelanin?
The group of (mostly) arboreal stem birds that went extinct at the K-Pg boundary.
What are Enantiornithines?
The order containing the extinct Dodo.
What are columbiformes?
The extinct ratite species that had no wings.
What is the Moa?
The special group of pursuit-diving piscivorous ducks.
What are mergansers?
The type of feather characterized by a tuft of short barbs at the distal end of the rachis, primarily used as mechanoreceptors.
What are filoplumes?
The theropod said to be the 'most bird-like reptile' due to its mesotarsal ankle join.
What is Compsognathus?
The order of birds including the secretarybird.
What are accipitriformes?
the ratite species that doesn't have completely male parental care.
What is the Ostrich?
The only group of birds that doesn't use contact incubation.
What are Megapodiidae?
Feathers used in slow flight and landing to prevent stalling
The earliest known bird to have a syrinx.
What is Vegavis iaai?
The order of birds most closely related to flamingos.
What are grebes?
What are pennebrachia?
The two main lineages of commercial chickens.
What are broilers and layers?
The kind of pigment responsible for the yellow color of Great Horned Owl eyes and the blue color of many eggs.
What are porphyrins?
The first known dinosaur to be found brooding eggs in nests.
What is Citipati?
The five families of Galliformes.
What are phasianidae, odontophoridae, numididae, cracidae, and megapodiidae?
What are the pterygoid, palatine, and vomer?
The only living member of the family Anseranatidae.
What is the Magpie Goose?